A useful GUI?
I saw an ad in the July 2001 Amstat News for a complex sample survey analysis package called Wesvar. The package has what appears to be a useful feature called a "Workbook" by which the user navigates analysis output. This is a hierarchical tree in which the user may click on a part of the analysis (table, regression fit, descriptive stats, etc.) so as to go directly to that output. Recent versions of SAS have something similar. In SAS the title of a graphic may be what appears in the navigation tree, and clicking on that entry will replay the appropriate graph. Has anyone had experience with such GUIs and would comment on productivity or documentation benefits? I wonder what would be the most platform-independent way to implement such a feature, e.g., dynamic html, if it is useful to statisticians. On a related note, I routinely use postscript files and Ghostview for generating and debugging graphics. Has anyone seen an application like Ghostview that is more dynamic? I would like to have a multi-tabbed graphics window that automatically refreshes a graph when the postscript file changes and that graph is visable. Tabs could be identified by file names or by text used in a title( ) call. If postscript were an intrinsic image type supported by html browers this could probably be done elegantly with an html generator.
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